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HIV untreated after 10 years

Hi

My girlfriend lives in Orlando , is 30 now and has 2 children (6 and 3 years old).
In the past she had had risky behaviors, having unprotected sex while on drugs, from 15 to 20 years old approx.

10 years have passed and her health is good, her kids too. When i asked her about aids, she was upset, accusing me to ask a "question for ******". Of course it wasn't. She told me that she ran through piles of blood tests when she was pregnant, and now it's obvious to her that she is HIV negative. She has done a "cold blood" test too when she was 20.

What's your opinion? Does "having blood tests while the pregnancy" mean "to have been tested for HIV"?
And what about the disease itself? Could it stay untreated and silent during 10 years?
Is the "cold blood" test a test for HIV?

thanks for your answers.

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186166 tn?1385259382
most doctors in this day and age, do order a hiv test as part of a woman's pregnancy workup.
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Thanks for your opinion, but i would have loved to get more information...
Why do you think it's ok?
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she has not HIV
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